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After senior leader and former minister R Roshan Baig lashed out against the Congress and called Congress party in-charge of Karnataka affairs, KC Venugopal a buffoon, his son Ruman Baig says Congress used Muslims as a safety cushion. He hinted that Roshan Baig will contest as an independent with BJP’s support in the by-election in Shivajinagar, Bengaluru.

After the coalition government in Karnataka faced massive setback in the recently-held Lok Sabha election, reports state that Siddaramaiah wants the Congress to part ways with the JD(S). The Congress’s tally fell from 9 in 2014 to just one in 2019 with the BJP winning 25 of the 28 Parliamentary seats

“We will bring new faces into the committee and make it compact and effective. We had a discussion regarding this earlier, but then the Lok Sabha election came up,” Eshwara Khandre, working president of the KPCC said

JD(S) leader Nikhil Kumaraswamy met party president H Vishwanath and spoke about future course of action with regard to Mandya. Nikhil lost to independent candidate Sumalatha Ambareesh from the constituency. It looks like Nikhil, who did not involve directly in politics until he contested the Lok Sabha election, is continuing on the road to remain as a politician. He has been speaking to veteran leaders in the state.

In the backdrop of BJP's spectacular performance in Lok Sabha election in Karnataka, former police officer Abdul Azeem said that many Mulsims have turned away from the Congress. The former ACP also criticised BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan for saying that Azeem had lost relevance after joining the BJP.

JDS state president AH Vishwanath stated in the notice that party does not have any official list of spokespersons to represent it in the media. The party fears that it will be put in an uncomfortable situation if unchecked statements are given to the media

Mandya's independent candidate Sumalatha beat JD(S) candidate Nikhil Kumaraswamy in the 17th Lok Sabha election. However, this victory didn't go down well with his supporters who then got into a fight with backers of Sumalatha.

Amid celebrations across the country after the NDA took a massive lead in the Lok Sabha election 2019, former deputy chief minister R Ashok took time to speak to Asianet Newsable. “There is no chance of the JDS and BJP forming a coalition,” he said.

BJP sees a sweeping victory in the state of Karnataka and the state president of the party Yeddyurappa has said that he is not demanding that HD Kumaraswamy resigns, even though some of his party members have already sought the chief minister's resignation.

Counting staff have been asked to report at 5 am and the process will start with counting postal ballots at 8 am. Here are the do's and don'ts in the college premises, till announcement of results of the Lok Sabha election on May 23.

Rationalists from Akhila Karnataka Vicharavadi Sangha have challenged astrologers to predict Lok Sabha results and have offered Rs 1 crore prize money to be distributed for exact predictions to various questions posed by them.